Global Encounters: Legacies of Exchange and Conflict (1000-1700)
CALL FOR PAPERS
for a Conference organized by the Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Conference dates: 14-15 November 2008.
The new Program in MEMS at UNC, Chapel Hill, seeks papers from scholars in a wide variety of disciplines. Papers dealing with topics of cultural mediation, interchange, and conflict are especially welcome. Possible areas of geographical concentration include Europe, the Atlantic world, the Mediterranean, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.
Key-note addresses will be offered by Professor Karen Ordahl Kupperman (Silver Professor of History at New York University), and by Professor Alfred J. Andrea (Professor Emeritus of History, University of Vermont).
The deadline for paper proposals is 1 April 2008.
Proposals should include a title, a 250 word abstract, a brief (two-page maximum) C.V., and full contact information.
Proposals should be submitted to the MEMS Organizing Committee, c/o Professor Brett Whalen, chair (bwhalen@email.unc.edu).
This Conference is supported by: the College of Arts and Sciences; the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; MEMS, the Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies at UNC; Associate Provost for International Affairs, UNC Chapel Hill; The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Duke University.
Second European Congress in World and Global History
2nd European Conference in Global and World History
July 3-5, 2008
Dresden, Germany
The Second European Conference in Global and World History will be held July 3-5, 2008 in Dresden, Germany. Following the theme, “World Orders in Global History,” the conference and the European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH) seeks to explore the increasing scholarly interest in world orders.
The fruitful differences in the ways in which scholars approach and understand world orders are underpinned by the shared observation that the multifold linkages and networks, the connections and mutual influences across the world, both create and are shaped by specific sets of power relations, institutions and ideas. These structures – economic, social, political or cultural – result from conflicts between various claims for and challenges to domination and regulation in contrast to efforts to preserve autonomy and self-control against hegemonic encroachments.
Although they are subject to constant change they represent global constellations, which for different periods of time constitute spheres of stability, structures of governance and frameworks of orientation, thus providing order in a complex, incalculable world. So far this research emphasis has been particularly strong in the Anglo-American context, whereas European scholars have rather reluctantly approached this area. Empirical research in many European countries, however, has addressed a whole range of historical situations and developments, which can be bound together to provide insights into world orders.
Therefore the second European Congress in World and Global History seeks to bring these potentials together and to discuss their empirical results, focussing on issues of enforcements and contestations of world orders in economic, social, political and cultural spheres. Interpretations of global history are shaped by many disciplines, and so does the understanding of world orders depend on contributions from a wide range of areas in the social sciences and humanities.
Furthermore the congress will include an exposition of publishing companies and a presentation of electronic information services in world and global history to inform about recent scholarship and the increasing active market for textbooks in Europe.
Please send all correspondence including the proposals for panels or individual presentations to Katja Naumann (Eniugh-headquarters):
University of Leipzig
Centre for Advanced Study
Emil-Fuchs-Str. 1
04105 Leipzig
GERMANY
Tel.: +49 341 97-30232